page_title: Porte des Morts
section_title: Porte des Morts Passage today
hierarchical_section_title: Porte des Morts / Porte des Morts Passage today
caption_attribution_description: English: Porte des Morts Passage from Northport, Door County, Wisconsin, USA; September 13, 2007; Showing base of ferry harbor breakwater and Plum Island at left, Detroit Island center, and Pilot Island at right. An abandoned lighthouse is the only structure on Pilot Island. Three images were merged and cropped to create this panorama.
context_page_description: Porte des Morts, also known as Porte des Mortes, the Door of Death, and Death's Door is a strait linking Lake Michigan and Green Bay between the northern tip of the peninsula of Door County, Wisconsin and a group of islands historically known as the Potawatomi Islands and dominated by Washington Island. The name is French and means, literally, "the door of the dead".
context_section_description: While Great Lakes freighters still navigate through Death's Door Passage on occasion on routes from Lake Superior to ports in Green Bay waters, most use the Rock Island Passage.  Freighters from southern Lake Michigan will use the Sturgeon Bay ship canal constructed in 1881.  Commercial ferries transit Death's Door Passage daily to provide transport from mainland Door County to Washington Island.  Recreation boating is common since navigation is not dangerous with modern marine electronics.
caption: Porte des Morts Passage from beach at Northport, showing ferry harbor breakwater and Plum Island at left, Detroit Island center, and Pilot Island at right. An abandoned lighthouse is the only structure on Pilot Island.
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